Collapse Quotes - Page 13

• With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

  George Burns

  Evil, Talent, Stink

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• Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.

  Susan Griffin

  Writing, Break Through, Order

  Susan Griffin (1983). “Made from this earth: an anthology of writings”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Volcanoes, Dancing, Germany

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• Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

  Richard Perle

  Military, Organization, Support

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• If we don't build our Spiritual Core our world is going to collapse.

  Christine Caine

  Spiritual, Our World, Core

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• It feels better there. In real life you can eventually learn to deal with the pain and trauma, learn to cope on some level, you know? But you can never undo death, and even if you think they deserve it, killing doesn’t take away your pain, just puts you on dangerous ground that can collapse out from beneath you at any time.

  Taylor Stevens

  Pain, Real, Feel Better

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• True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Running, Government, Issues

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Order, Government

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• Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

  Paul Auster

  Painting

  Paul Auster (2011). “Collected Prose”, p.201, Faber & Faber

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• Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

  Frank Herbert

  Greatness, Civilization, Quality

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.283, Penguin

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• A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

  Timothy Keller

  Reflection, Years, Long

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.18, Penguin

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• A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Feelings, Christian Life

  Erwin W. Lutzer (1976). “Flames of Freedom”, p.137, Moody Publishers

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• Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Empathy, Consciousness, Biosphere

  Jeremy Rifkin (2010). “The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis”, p.616, Polity

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• America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise of a variety of destructive pseudo-Christianities in its place.

  Ross Douthat

  America, Littles, Too Much

  Ross Douthat (2013). “Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Mother, Age, Bills

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• If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science.

  Naomi Klein

  Government, Greed, Intellectual

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• When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Stars, Order, Energy

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• Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Spiritual, Sunshine

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.190, Shambhala Publications

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• Ultimately, the law will collapse under its own weight. Until then, we have to start building a better health care system in its place. And we need to start with a new principle: Put the patient in the driver's seat. That's how we can build a healthy economy.

  Paul Ryan

  Law, Healthy, Weight

  "Rep. Paul Ryan: Obamacare is beyond repair". www.usatoday.com. January 6, 2015.

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• Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling of everything from the Islamic State to Ebola were the only real issues. Democrats'€™ refusal to acknowledge them did not make these failures go away.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Real, Islamic, Government

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• Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily in tiny doses - relinquishing a pointless worry, getting wise to a self-destructive habit, serving notice on a cruel notion about yourself that has previously seemed justified. The beginning of forgiveness is alertness to false ideas.

  D. Patrick Miller

  Wise, Healing, Ideas

  D. Patrick Miller (2009). “The Way of Forgiveness: Letting Go, Easing Stress, and Building Strength”, p.48, Fearless Books

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• The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Witty, Truth, Philosophical

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• The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.

  Heinz Guderian

  War, House Of Cards, Broken

  Heinz Guderian (2001). “Panzer Leader”, p.387, Da Capo Press

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• Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

  William James

  Mean, Men, Absence

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